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Search Results for Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Abstract Number: 743
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A healthy 29 y/o male with mild COVID 19 illness three weeks prior presented to the emergency department with one week of fevers, chest pain and shortness of breath. Patient denied recent travel, sick contacts, and was not on any medications.On presentation he was febrile to 103oF and persistently hypotensive after fluid resuscitation. […]
Abstract Number: 745
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 22-year-old male with no known medical history presented with complaints of epistaxis for two weeks and subjective fevers. The patient also reported fatigue, and unintentional weight loss for three months. He was tachycardic to 111 on presentation, but otherwise afebrile and normotensive. Pertinent physical exam findings included dried blood in the nares, […]
Abstract Number: 782
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 58 year old previously healthy Nigerian female presented with a 6-week history of high-grade fevers, weakness, malaise, and a 10-pound weight loss. On physical exam she was found to have tachycardia, hypotension, fever (Temperature 103F), altered mental status and peripheral pitting edema. Her hospital course was complicated by hypotension and acute kidney […]
Abstract Number: 831
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: We present a 70-year-old female with a past medical history of heart failure, atrial fibrillation, COPD, and type-2 diabetes mellitus who was admitted with subjective fevers, vomiting, diarrhea, and intermittent cough for five days. On admission, the patient was alert and oriented but febrile (39C) and tachycardic (112 beats/min). Laboratory tests were significant […]
Abstract Number: 834
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 27-year-old female without any significant medical history, who developed acute kidney injury, metabolic acidosis, increasing liver enzymes, coagulopathy, anemia, thrombocytopenia and undifferentiated shock requiring pressors on 6th post-partum delivery. Peripheral smear showed atypical lymphocytes, dohle bodies and neutrophils with toxic vacuolization, suggesting an inflammatory processOther labs were significant for elevated ferritin levels […]
Abstract Number: 869
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old female with a past medical history of microcytic anemia and recently-diagnosed AOSD presented with 2 weeks of progressive dyspnea. On her preceding hospital admission, her AOSD was diagnosed and clinical suspicion for MAS was initially mounted. At that time, she demonstrated polyarthralgia, pruritic rash, high-grade fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, diffuse lymphadenopathy, neutrophilic leukocytosis, […]
Abstract Number: 975
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 43 year old female with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department after developing subjective fevers, myalgias, arthralgias, and malaise one week after a hiking trip in northern Minnesota. She had a fever of 39.2℃ and splenomegaly with no rash. Pertinent labs showed a hemoglobin of 12.1 g/dL (11.6-15.0 […]
Abstract Number: C38
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: Babesiosis, most commonly caused by Babesia microti and transmitted by the Ixodes tick, is one of the predominant tick-borne diseases of Northeast and upper Midwestern United States (1, 2). Clinical manifestations range from asymptomatic infection to severe fulminant disease, with fever being the most common presentation (3). Acute respiratory distress syndrome and disseminated […]
Abstract Number: H32
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old male presented to the Emergency Room with one week of worsening productive cough, fevers (Tmax 103F), vomiting, diarrhea, and malaise. His past medical history was significant for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), treated with etanercept, hydroxychloroquine, leflunomide and sulfasalazine. On physical examination, he was febrile, normotensive with tachycardia, and tachypneic with diminished breath […]
Abstract Number: J32
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 31-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented with fever, chills, night sweats, and rash. One week prior, he underwent incision and drainage of a perirectal abscess and was started on a 7-day course of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX). On the second day following the procedure, he developed fevers, chills, night sweats, and […]